Dr Victoria McGowan

Research Fellow

Room number 4.17,Centre for Medicine,The Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour,University of Leicester,Leicester,LE1 9HNUK.

Research Interests and Techniques

My research explores how we can use eye movements to understand the cognitive processes underlying reading, and in particular, how this changes as we grow older. This research is currently funded by an ESRC Future Research Leader Fellowship.

Jordan, T.J., McGowan, V.A., Kurtev, S., & Paterson, K.B. (2017). Investigating the effectiveness of spatial frequencies to the left and right of central vision during reading: Evidence from reading times and eye movements. Frontiers in Psychology, 8.807. Download pdf here